Atomizing-inhaler.



PATENTED APR. 18, 1905. A. BULLING.

ATOMIZING INHALER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. z, 1904.

UNTTED STATES ratentect April 18, 1905.

PATENT @FETCE.

ANTON BULLING, OF MUNICH, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO CARL BITTER VON \VESSELY, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-IIUNGAHY.

ATOMIZING-INHALER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 787,874, dated April 18, 1905.

Application filed March 2, 1904. Serial N0.196,219.

T0 ll'lml/t if 'llM/f/ venom-11 Be it known that I, AN'roN Bnnmxo, a citizen of the Empire of (icrmany, residing at Munich, (lermany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Atomizing-Inhalers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to atomizers, and has for its object the provision of eflicient means for intimately mixing oily and other medicaments with a suitable liquid vehicle, such as water, preparatory to atomizing the same.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown a form of apparatus embodying my invention in a preferred form, in which Figure 1 is a central section, and Fig. 2 is a top plan view.

Referring to the drawings more in detail, the central air-tube (z and the concentricallyarranged air-tubes u are connected,by means of the pipe 11", with a suitable source of compressed air. The tubes merging into the cap r form th channels for the supply of the medicament and the liquid vehicle, and the tube 11, discharging through the cap 0, produces an efficient atomizing effect, as will be readily understood.

The apparatus so far as described is disposed within a vessel (1, containing the liquid and the medicaments, which latter in the case of oily medicament-s will float upon the surface of the liquid, usually water.

It is the object of my invention to effect a mixture of the substances prior to their entry into the tubes 6, and to this end I discharge upon the surface of the same streams of air under pressure through the holes 1: in the lower side of the circular tubef, which com municates with the tubes 0 by means of the valved pipes r/ and is maintained at a uniform distance above the surface of the water by means of the supporting-floats 71..

It will be seen that the force of the air-currents striking directly downward upon the surface of the oily matter floating upon the water will drive the same beneath the surface and cause the diffusion thereof in minute particles throughout the upper portion of the water, whence the mixture will be sucked by the tubes 7) and led to the atomizing-chamber c, the concentrically-arranged tubes (1 serving to increase the atomizing effect and maintain its uniformity.

Having thus fully set out my invention and the manner of its operation, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an atomizer, the combination with a vessel for containing medicaments and a liquid vehicle, an atomizing-chamber, and a passage for conducting the medicaments thereto. of a float sustained by the liquid vehicle and means carried by the float and arranged to d irect a current of air under pressure upon the surface of the medicaments and thereby diffusing the medicaments in the liquid vehicle.

2. In an atomizer, the combination with a vessel for containing oily medicaments and a liquid vehicle, an atomizing-chamber and passages leading from below the surface of the vehicle to the atomizing-chamber, of a pipe supported above the surface of the liquid and having perforations on its under side, and means fonforcing air under pressure through said perforations downward upon the surface of the oily medicaments adjacent to the inlets of the passages.

3. In an atomizer, the combination with a vessel for containing oily medicaments and a liquid vehicle, of a passage leading from a convenient source of compressed air and terminating in a central discharge tube and nozzle, a cap surrounding the nozzle and serving as an atomizing-chamber, passages leading to the atomizing-chamber from below the surface of the liquid vehicle, a pipe arranged horizontally about discharge-tube and communicating therewith, perforations in the lower side of the horizontal pipe, and means consisting of floats for maintaining the horizontal pipe a uniform distance above the surface of the liquid.

4. In an atomizer, the combination with a vessel for containing oily medicaments and a liquid vehicle,of a passage leading from a convenient source of compressed air and terminating in a plurality of discharge-nozzles one consisting of floats maintaining the horizontal I being arranged centrally of the others, a cap pipe a uniform distance above the surface of surrounding the central discharge and servthe liquid.

ing as an atomizing-chamber, passages lead- In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my ing to the atomiZing-chamber from below the signature in the presence of two witnesses. surface of the liquid vehicle, a pipe arranged ANTON BULLING. horizontally about the discharge-tubes and Vitnesses:

communicating therewith, perforations in the ULYSSES BYWATER, lower side of the horizontal pipe, and means l ABRAHAM SoHLEsINeER. 

